Biophysical Society Bulletin | February 2019

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Exocytosis/Endocytosis The 2019 Exocytosis/Endocytosis Subgroup Symposium is scheduled for Saturday, March 2, at the Baltimore Convention Center as part of the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The theme for this year’s symposium is “From Molecule to Mechanism: New Insights into the Dynam- ics of Vesicle Fusion and Recycling.” Featured speakers are: Nils Brose (Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine) Dynamic Control of Vesicle Priming in Synaptic Short-term Plasticity Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen) Regulation of Vesicle Acidification at the Neuronal Synapse Justin Taraska (NHLBI/NIH) Imaging the Nanoscale Structure of Endocytosis and Exocytosis with Light and Electron Microscopy 2019 Sir Bernard Katz Award Keynote Lecture Ed Chapman (University of Wisconsin/HHMI) Diverse Functions of the Synaptotagmins In addition, several short talks from trainees will be selected from the abstracts submitted for the annual meeting. A closing banquet dinner will be held at Lee’s Pint & Shell, 2844 Hudson St, Baltimore, MD, and will allow for plenty of networking and scientific interactions after the symposium. The organizers invite all members of the Biophysical Society to join us for what promises to be an outstanding day of cut- ting-edge science and comradery. — Amy Lee , Exocytosis/Endocytosis Subgroup Chair

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins The Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Subgroup will hold its annual symposium on March 2, 2019, from 1:00 to 6:15 PM in conjunction with the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Bio- physical Society in Baltimore. As always, everybody is wel- come to attend the symposium. The program co-chairs Hue Sun Chan , University of Toronto, and Nicholas Fawzi , Brown University, have prepared an exciting, multidisciplinary pro- gram that will showcase recent notable work in the IDP field. If you are interested in joining the subgroup for dinner fol- lowing the symposium, please contact Loren Hough (hough@ colorado.edu). If you do join us, please consider joining the IDP Subgroup as a member and attending the IDP Subgroup Business Meeting from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, also on Saturday, March 2, 2019. We encourage all subgroup members to become involved in subgroup organization or leadership. Please nominate your- self or your colleagues for subgroup leadership. — Tanja Mittag , IDP Subgroup Chair Allen Institute for Cell Science at Biophysical Society 2019 Find us at booth #602 in the exhibitor hall to: • Speak with Allen Institute scientists about their presentations and posters at BPS 2019 • Learn about the Institute and how to access our cell lines, analysis tools and data on allencell.org • Experience a VR demonstration of our cell images • Learn about our newest tools, including label-free imaging and the Allen Cell Structure Segmenter

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